{"id":3593,"date":"2010-10-28T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2010-10-28T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T19:11:00","slug":"motives-of-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/motives-of-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Motives of Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3594\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/4719870840_9474fa8bf6_b-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3594\" title=\"4719870840_9474fa8bf6_b-1\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/4719870840_9474fa8bf6_b-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/4719870840_9474fa8bf6_b-1.jpg 683w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/4719870840_9474fa8bf6_b-1-350x525.jpg 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/4719870840_9474fa8bf6_b-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/4719870840_9474fa8bf6_b-1-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">charity workers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Take a moment and think about your last choice to do the right thing. It have been an internal motivation, but dig a bit deeper. What is behind that? What worldview?<\/p>\n<p>Oswald Chambers describes how our view of authority, obedience, and the human spirit work together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#003366;\">There is nothing miraculous or mysterious about the things we can explain. We control what we are able to explain, consequently it is only natural to seek an explanation for everything. It is not natural to obey, yet it is not necessarily sinful to disobey. There can be no real disobedience, nor any moral virtue in obedience, unless a person recognizes the higher authority of the one giving the orders. If this recognition does not exist, even the one giving the orders may view the other person\u2019s disobedience as freedom. If one rules another by saying, \u201cYou must do this,\u201d and, \u201cYou will do that,\u201d he breaks the human spirit, making it unfit for God. A person is simply a slave for obeying, unless behind his obedience is the recognition of a holy God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#003366;\">Oswald Chambers (<a href=\"http:\/\/utmost.org\/the-mystery-of-believing\/\">click here for his full articl<\/a>e)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:#003366;\"><strong>Perhaps you can take just a moment to think of God&#8217;s holiness. And think of <\/strong><\/span><em><strong>why<\/strong><\/em><strong> you obey. What supports that? And what can improve your practical ethics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;d love to hear your ideas.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Motives and Foundations for Doing Good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[293,378,621,622,13,1016,1150,1472,1504,1663,42,2255,2437,2841,3313],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","tag-authority","tag-belief","tag-charity","tag-charity-workers","tag-christianity","tag-doing-good","tag-ethics","tag-god","tag-good-and-evil","tag-holy","tag-leadership","tag-morality","tag-oswald-chambers","tag-religion-and-spirituality","tag-supreme-being"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}